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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 4, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett blows a kiss at an opposition MK during a plenum session and a vote on the state budget in the Knesset, on November 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett: This is a 'day of celebration'

Coalition passes 2021 budget, first in 3.5 years, averting early election threat

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Government overcomes major test after staying up until 5 a.m.; MKs reconvene Thursday morning to vote on arrangements bill and 2022 budget

Rebel Yamina MK Amichai Chikli addresses the Knesset plenum during votes on the state budget, November 4, 2021. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset spokesperson)

Bennett’s Yamina party said to weigh declaring rebel MK Chikli a dissenter

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C) and other government ministers attend the final votes on the state budget, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coalition leaders cheer approval of state budget after ‘years of chaos’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 4 – It’s a budget! How the coalition passed biggest test yet

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur assess the government’s successful allocation of public finances — a first in 3.5 years

ExplainerHow much of a revolution? 13 key reforms in Israel’s new state budget

By Ricky Ben-David

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks ahead of the final votes on the state budget, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ahead of budget votes, Bennett accuses Netanyahu of sowing ‘chaos,’ division

Thomas Nides at a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 4, 2012. (AP/Anjum Naveed)

After delay, Senate confirms Biden nominee Nides as ambassador to Israel

Day after blocking Democrats from fast-tracking diplomat-turned-banker’s nomination, Republicans forgo their objections, allowing Nides to be confirmed via voice vote

WATCH: Health Ministry discusses okaying vaccine for ages 5-11

Israel Center for Disease Control committee members answer questions from the public; no decision expected Thursday; kids’ COVID-19 inoculations expected to begin mid-November

Jamie Onofrio Franceschini, 11, watches as RN Rosemary Lantigua prepares a syringe with her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children five to 12 years old at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore, on November 3, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Screen capture from video of Yitzhak 'Jackie' Edry, February 2020. (YouTube)

Two unvaccinated brothers die of COVID-19 within two hours

President Isaac Herzog, left, greets leaders of Israeli Ethiopian community during a ceremony to mark the Sigd, in Jerusalem, November 4, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Amid war in Ethiopia, Herzog urges bringing remaining Jews to Israel ‘quickly’

In comments marking the Sigd holiday, president says some of the ‘thousands’ who are still waiting to immigrate are ‘threatened and in a worrying situation’

Sudan's head of the military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, speaks during a press conference at the General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on October 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

US asks Israel to urge Sudan’s military chief to reverse coup — report

Pedro Montano holds his daughter Roxana Montano, 3, while she is being vaccinated against COVID-19 with Cuban vaccine Soberana Plus, on August 24, 2021 at Juan Manuel Marquez hospital in Havana, as part of a vaccine study in children and adolescents. (ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

After 5-hour hearing, Health Ministry promises ruling next week on kids’ shots

Health Ministry official tells public, live-streamed hearing that parents will not be coerced or pressured into giving the COVID vaccine to their 5- 11-year olds

7:23 pm

Police gearing up for clashes expected at Friday prayer service at Western Wall
7:12 pm

Jewish groups urge Congress to move forward with confirming antisemitism envoy
6:56 pm

Bennett planning tripartite meeting with leaders of Greece, Cyprus - report

The aftermath of Israel’s attack on the 6 NGOs

Israel’s main battle these days is on social media, which less about terrorists, and more the need to combat influencers with millions of followers

Sigd is not just a holiday for Ethiopian Jews. It means Israel sees us.

Over time I realized there is no full integration without recognition, no equality without belonging. The fight for Sigd was an integral part of our struggle.

Malicious activities: US blacklists Israel’s NSO Group and Candiru spyware firms

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Commerce Department says Israeli companies suspected of link to ‘activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States’

The 'Grand Hotel Wien' where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran were taking place in Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2021. (Lisa Leutner/AP)

Iran, EU say nuclear talks to resume on November 29 in Vienna

By AFP and ToI Staff

Long-stalled negotiations to move forward; US says a deal is possible if Tehran is ‘serious’

Mock US and Israeli flags are set on fire by demonstrators in a rally in front of the former US Embassy commemorating the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

American, Israeli flags burned as Iran marks 1979 takeover of US Embassy

Fadah Jassem (Twitter)

Twitter’s new curator for Middle East news apologizes for anti-Israel tweets

By Gabe Stutman

Fadah Jassem once said Israel was ‘not born’ but ‘dropped like a bomb in the middle of Palestine’; also sorry for feting her new role with emojis of 17 states, leaving out Israel

Screen capture from video of Kansas local labor leader Cornell Beard, August 2020. (YouTube)

Kansas labor leader apologizes for likening vaccine mandates to Holocaust

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wears a 'Stop the Steal' mask while speaking with fellow first-term Republican members of Congress, on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, January 4, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Marjorie Taylor Greene blames ‘vaccine Nazis’ for ‘ruining our country’

In this handout image released by the police, a suspect, reportedly a member of the Shuvu Bonim sect, is arrested in Jerusalem, October 17, 2021. Insert: Nissim Shitrin in an undated photo. (Israel Police; Courtesy)

Suspect said to confess to unsolved 1986 murder after meeting Hasidic cult rabbi

Member of Eliezer Berland’s Shuvu Bonim sect reportedly told police that he and others took 17-year-old Nissim Shitrit to a forest near Jerusalem and beat him to death

Gil Pereg is arrested as a suspect of his mother's and aunt's murders in Mendoza, Argentina, January 26, 2019. (Patricio Caneo/Los Andes via AP)

Israeli man convicted in Argentina of murdering mother, aunt

Illustration of the liver in a woman's body (Tharakorn via iStock by Getty Images)

Small trial of Israeli drug shows promise for treating fatty liver disease

By Nathan Jeffay

Fibrosis progressed less than average amount in 15 of the 16 patients enrolled; half of the sample saw their fibrosis go back a stage

Chabad bought a historic church in Chicago last year and converted it into a Jewish center known as Chabad of East Lakeview. (Courtesy of Chabad/ via JTA)

As pandemic drove Judaism online, Chabad bet on over $137 million in real estate

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An Emirates airline cabin crew member poses on one of the United Arab Emirates flag-carrier planes. (Emirates Airlines PR)

UAE flag carrier Emirates to launch daily Dubai-Tel Aviv flights

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from security camera video that led to charges being dropped against four Arab Israeli men accused of beating an off-duty IDF soldier. (Channel 12 News)

Charges dropped against 4 Arab Israelis accused of beating soldier in May

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 3, 2021. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Bennett: Opposition will ‘weaken considerably’ once budget passed

Economy Minister Orna Barbivai and Jordan's Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Yousef Alshamali meet in Jordan, November 3, 2021 (Yossi Iphergan, GPO)

Economy ministers of Israel, Jordan meet for first time in decade to boost ties

By ToI Staff and AFP

Staff Sgt. Yonatan Granot, killed by an apparent accidental discharge from another serviceman’s weapon in the Jordan Valley (Courtesy)

IDF censures officers implicated in accidental gunshot death of soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

Shas MK Moshe Abutbul is escorted out of the Knesset on November 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

CatcallMK booted for meowing, brandishing cat doll during budget vote

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at a press conference at the Ministry of Finance offices in Jerusalem, on November 3, 2021 where the government announced that the minimum wage would rise to NIS 6,000 by 2025. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Minimum wage to increase gradually to NIS 6,000 by 2025

By Ricky Ben-David

Jordan's then Crown Prince Hamzah, left, with his mother Queen Noor, right, during his wedding ceremony in Amman, Jordan, May 27, 2004. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Former Jordanian queen laments that prince who feuded with king still not free

By AP

Illustrative: People outside a Shufersal supermarket in Safed on April 6, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Report on supermarket’s deep discounts for ultra-Orthodox sparks outcry

Gay rights activist Gal Uchovsky on August 17, 2011. (Yossi Zeliger/ FLASH90/ File)

Police officially open sexual assault investigation into leading LGBT activist

Cast member Gal Gadot arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Red Notice' at LA Live on November 3, 2021. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The fairest of them all?Gal Gadot to play evil queen in new ‘Snow White’

By Stuart Winer

Max Fried pitches in Game 6 of the 2021 World Series, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Member of the other tribeJewish ace Max Fried pitches Atlanta Braves to World Series title

By jacob gurvis

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